Resources
A launching pad.
Over the years I’ve collected books, interviews, lectures, music, artists, courses, and random things from the internet that changed the way I think about making work. This is some of it.
It isn’t a curriculum, and I don’t agree with everything here. These are simply things I found useful at different points in my life.
I think becoming a better artist requires paying attention to much more than art. I read about writing, business, history, advertising, religion, technology, economics, and whatever else catches my attention.
Study widely. Then make things.
I hope something here helps you.
Blessings,
Anthony.
Finding your voice as a creative
- Why you will fail to have a Great career by Larry Smith
- Hero Worship, words by Jack Kirby, art by Gavin Aung Than
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
- Letters to a Poet by Maria Rilke
- Let Nas Down by J Cole
- Virgil Abloh
- Will Smith
- Kobe Bryant
- Nipsey Hussle
- Mr Eazi
- Chuck Close
- Mastery by Robert Greene
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Art history
Starting out in Visual Art
Starting out with digital Art
Starting out in Writing
Starting out with Sculpting
Artists that I admire
On Marketing and Advertising
This list is intentionally incomplete.
Most of what I know came from studying something, trying it, getting it wrong, and trying again. There isn’t really a substitute for making the work.
I’ll keep adding things here whenever I find something worth passing on.